The Daily Populous Monday July 8th, 2024 evening edition
Authored by bostonglobe.com and submitted by plz-let-me-in

He failed to answer the interviewers’ questions; was incoherent and jumbled in his speech; spewed misinformation, exaggeration, and lies; took credit for some of Biden’s accomplishments; and blamed Biden for his own administration’s failures. To anyone paying attention, the debate amply demonstrated Trump’s lack of fitness to be president, but I have yet to see anything like comparable coverage given to his terrible debate performance. This should change.

For every column that has been devoted to Biden’s halting debate performance and its possible fallout, I would have loved to see the same amount of space focused on Donald Trump’s performance — a disastrous one by any reasonable standard (as summarized in Heather Cox Richardson’s excellent post-debate blog ).

Is Biden’s age the new ‘but her emails’?

I am a subscriber and have generally been satisfied by the Globe’s take on politics and emphasis on deep reporting of regional news. So, I was very disappointed to see the Globe follow The New York Times and others in asking for Biden to step down. Like the “but her emails” issue that undermined Hilary Clinton in the last few months of her campaign, the press’s debate coverage may be the legacy of the media’s role in our democracy: It has become destructive. Instead, focus on the real threats to our democracy — which are everywhere. Biden can win if the media understands that telling Biden to step down is not their job.

I couldn’t help but notice that the Globe did not call for Donald Trump to drop out following his felony conviction. Democrats are focusing on one bad debate instead of examining the last 3 years of an administration that cleaned up so much from the Trump years. Biden has clearly lost some speed off his fastball but that is no reason to change pitchers at this late date. We don’t elect presidents to debate, we elect them to lead the nation.

I take issue with all the pundits calling for President Biden to resign. There are only five months left until the election in November. President Biden has proven he believes in the Constitution, respects it, and stands by it. He is an older candidate — but he is not looking to lead our country from a democracy to an autocracy. As voters, we have no other choice but to stand up and vote for President Biden or turn our country over to a man who believes in “one man, one rule.”

edatx on July 8th, 2024 at 12:56 UTC »

At this point I’m just voting against Trump. If that’s Biden, fine, Harris, great, a ham sandwich, excellent.

People need to take the real threat of erosion of our democracy seriously.

CaptainNoBoat on July 8th, 2024 at 11:52 UTC »

Articles like these:

Make those never voting for Trump feel good. Make those already voting for Trump dig in their heels harder. Make those on the fence equate an impossibility (Trump dropping out) and a possibility (Biden dropping out) equally.

There's no real benefit to these articles other than a feel-good title for reddit to upvote.

This probably doesn't need to be said a millionth time, but Trump is running to defy the media and avoid accountability. This is like fuel for him and his base. It's exactly the crap he wants.

Trump doesn't need to drop out. He needs to go to prison and be disqualified from politics for life. Making a "No U" article saying he needs to drop out after the debate is such an eye-roll. For people that know - we know already. For anyone else, it just gets thrown on the pile of a million other critical articles the past 8 years for them to continue ignoring.

There are at least some small ways for the media to get through on holding Trump accountable to the people that need to hear it. This.. isn't that.

ShichikaYasuri18 on July 8th, 2024 at 11:29 UTC »

We are going to lose our democracy because people are screaming "BUTWHATABOUT" for 4.5 month. Trump should drop out, but he won't because he's winning.